Re: Line dashing

[Mats Bengtsson]

I don't remember what dashed bar lines look like in printed music,
but at least it certainly makes sense to synchronise the dashes/dots
with the score lines as is done in LilyPond today. Otherwise it
could be difficult to distinguish them from solid lines.

   /Mats


Heikki Johannes Junes wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:24:39 +0200 Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> > I hope you have noticed that dashed bar lines indeed are supported,
> > at least since version 2.2, see
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/input/test/out-www/collated-files.html#bar-
> > lines.ly
> >
> >    /Mats
>
>
> IMHO, \bar ":" rather seem to produce stacked dots. Or, in other words, do
> stacked dots, which are rather wide, look better than dashed lines, which are as
> thin as \bar "|"? At least, Estonian composer Arvo Pärt have used the latter 
> ones.

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